🧵 What's The Significance Of Taylor Swift's Friendship Bracelets?

What does it all mean?

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
And Amanda jam Nation.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
Let's talk about Taylor Swift because everyone else is. There's
an article in the paper today, But all the things
that's happening when Taylor comes to town. This is how
she boosts the economy. There's an era as to a
bedazzling workshop. You can take you outfit along as a
three hour workshop to make your clothes Taylor concert. Ready,

(00:24):
you think you're doing that, Brendan n a lot.

Speaker 1 (00:26):
Of bedazzler guy by and large.

Speaker 2 (00:28):
Well what about this Taylor Paint and sip. You go
along and you create a memento of some kind of
Taylor while you sip wine and paint Taylor ish things.

Speaker 1 (00:38):
It's amazing how she is a one woman beatles.

Speaker 2 (00:41):
You know, how does she preserve herself? She sings for
four hours every night, and then you see her on
the weekends in that big, open corporate box with a
whole lot of people watching her boyfriend play football. She
must be on some incredible throat protection.

Speaker 1 (00:55):
Well, how does she do it?

Speaker 2 (00:56):
How does she do it? There's also friendship bracelet making classes.
They all about this. A single long boat ride, a
thirty minute jet boat ride around Sydney Harbor to the
sounds of Taylor Swift.

Speaker 1 (01:05):
So you're in a jet bat.

Speaker 2 (01:07):
Unusual, isn't it.

Speaker 3 (01:10):
By the way, I'm just putting out when all this fails,
I want to be one of those jet boat drivers
on the harbor, that is the swift you just said.

Speaker 2 (01:16):
You want to be the person that drops the water
over fires.

Speaker 3 (01:20):
Okay, if that's my backup if the jet boat thing
doesn't happen. But I'm just looking for side hustle careers.
I think the jet boat guy on the harbor would
be pretty cool.

Speaker 2 (01:30):
Can we go back to talking about Taylor? Much more
interesting your aspiration? So what has been going on is that,
you know, often when you go to a concert, you
know there's going to be an alcohol band, and there's
going to be you know, you can't take in big
bottles of water and all of this.

Speaker 1 (01:43):
You can't take your gun in anymore. Can you believe
that that's outrageous? There are some.

Speaker 2 (01:47):
Strict rules around what you can take in and the
size of the bag you can take in. Apparently you
have the fans have been informed you can only take
in a bag the size of it's going to be
all the A four with a maximum of two compartments.
Professional camera equipment's not allowed. But the rule that has
really upset people is you can only take as many

(02:09):
friendship bracelets as you can fit on your arm. You're
not allowed to carry them in on any carab biners.
And let me, I wasn't sure what the carabiner thing was.

Speaker 1 (02:17):
You think that's snapped in cliffhangers.

Speaker 2 (02:19):
Yeah, but I mean in this context because you've probably
seen the friendship bracelets that Taylor Swift that everyone who
loves Taylor Swift is wearing the reason behind these friendship
bracelets Taylor has a song called You're on your Own
Kid from album Midnights, and the lyrics are, so make
your friendship bracelets, take the moment and taste it. So
since then, fans have suggested making friendship bracelets that they

(02:41):
swap with each other at various shows, and this worldwide
trend has taken off. So not only do people wear them,
they have hundreds of them. Some of them have up
to like four hundred of them that they then put
on like a carabiner. And so they've been told they
can't take those into the concert, like big bags of them,

(03:03):
and the idea being that you want to swap them
with everyone else you meet there, but you're not allowed
to take them in. This is interesting. Let me tell
you about the what the role the friendship bracelet paid
in her relationship with Travis Kelcey. He made a friendship
bracelet with his phone number on it for Taylor before
they knew each other. He'd spoken on his podcast I
think that's a bit crushy on it. And then she
performed at the Kansas City. At the Kansas City with

(03:25):
her ears to her. He made a friendship bracelet with
his number on it, but he didn't get to hand
it to it personally because she doesn't do interviews or
meet people before or after the show because she preserves
her voice. So he asked someone to pass it on
to her, and yes, she phoned him.

Speaker 1 (03:41):
Well, how did she get the bracelet?

Speaker 2 (03:42):
So did you not listen?

Speaker 1 (03:44):
She does it?

Speaker 2 (03:45):
So just and said can you give this to Taylor?
And she received it and she called him. So it's
played a big role for them.

Speaker 1 (03:53):
How good is that?

Speaker 2 (03:54):
So the rule is fans are very devastated because they've
got some I've got hundreds and hundreds of these bracelet
and you're only allowed to take in the amount that
you can wear. The only person that's happy about this
is Henry the Octopus. He's saying, what's your problem? People,
I'm covert.

Speaker 1 (04:09):
How good is that he's got a MISSI that doesn't
speak only when.

Speaker 3 (04:13):
She's working, Henry the Octopus, No, Travis Kelsey, Henry the
Octopus doesn't have a missake.

Speaker 2 (04:20):
How would you know there might be a missus? Henry
expensive to buy.

Speaker 1 (04:24):
Shoes, balls. All can't stand him. He gets a bit handsy.